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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 17, 1991 - THREE The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Î =— Sheriff’s Report J O NPA The Heppner G A Z E T T E -T IM E S Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper U.S.P.S. 240-420 Published every Wednesday and entered as second-class matter at the Post Offlce at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second class postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503) 676-9228. Address communications to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Hepp ner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $15 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Counties; $23 elsewhere. Joyce Hughes ........................................................... Office Manager, Typesetting April Sykes ........................................................................................... News Editor Carol Atherly ....................................................................... Graphics Department Becky E v a n s........................................................................ Graphics Department Monique P a r r e l...................................................................................... Distribution Penni Keersemaker........................................................................................ Bindery Bob S m ith ........................................................................................................Printer David and April Svkes. Publishers Letters to the Editor Medical board clarifies financial info To the Editor: As members of the Morrow Coun ty Medical Board, we want to take this opportunity to comment and clarify the financial information presented June 26, 1991, in the Col umbia Valley Chronicle and reprinted in the Heppner-Gazette Times. We felt some individuals might find the financial information confusing. For the budget year, July 1990, through June 1991, the Medical Board’s total budget was $4.0 million of which only $400,000 was from tax revenues. The remaining $3.6 million came from outside the tax revenues. This was generated Marriage Licenses The Clerks’ office at the cour thouse in Heppner reports issuing the following marriage licenses during the past week: July 11: Timothy Wesley Shas- teen, 25, Boardman; and Deana N. G illiland, 19, Boardman. July 15: George Daniel Phillips, 20, Boardman; and Marilee Huffman, 18, Boardman. Help the Environment PRINTING ON RECYCLED PAPER G-T Printing 676-9228 from patient fees, predominately from Pioneer Memorial Hospital, Nursing Home, Clinic and Am bulance service together with revenue from Home Health which serves three counties. The board has tried, as needs have been identified, to allocate the tax revenue evenly between the Board- man/Irrigon area and the rest of the county.This has not been possible every year. Last year, the Board- man/Irrigon area received $210,000 vs. $190,000 for services to the rest of the county. For the second year in a row, more than 50 percent of the tax revenue has been allocated to the Boardman/Irrigon area. The Medical Board has struggled for some time to provide the services people desire and would use county wide with the tax revenues available. Your help and ideas on ac complishing community goals for medical services is needed through your involvement in the Communi ty Encourager Program. Medical services in Morrow County are a public program. It is only with help through public input that the board will be able to center on the health care goals important to the county as a whole while meeting individual communities’ health care needs. Morrow County Medical Board (s) Jackie Bergstrom, chairman Paul Sumner, vice chairman Bill Sheirbon, secretary Roger Cash John Hascall Kelli Strebin Lori Pruitt Merle Cowett COAST TO COAST Your Source for SUHHER DRIVING Oil - Coolant - Filters Waxes - Spark Plugs - Fuses Belts - Accessories - Batteries We now carry INTERSTATE BAT TERIES (as advertised by Paul Harvey). Standard sizes in stock. Let us help you with your driving needs. GoasttoGoast Heppner WE CAN HELP YOU 676-9961 Check’em Before you go on vacation Flexible Radiator Hoses Easy to install High burst strength hose Reinforced for long life EPDM rubber com po nents resist deteriora tion from extreme heat, coolants and additives #FM22 Fan Belts Dependable, long-last ing NAPA fan belts avail able in sizes to fit all makes of automobiles Protect yourself against worn belts, and always carry a spare #25-11303 Heppner Auto Parts 4 4 Because there are no unimportant parts." 676 - 9123 148 E. Center Heppner The Sheriffs office at the cour thouse in Heppner reports dispat ching the following business during the past week: July 9: Morrow County deputy responded to take a theft complaint; advised a civil matter; Morrow County Sheriffs office dispatched the Boardman ambulance to the Boardman Chevron for a 25 year old male with an unknown il lness. There was no transport. July 10: Morrow County deputy responded to the Irrigon area to in vestigate a juvenile problem; Morrow County deputy respond ed to Irrigon to investigate an animal problem; Morrow County Sheriffs office arrested Robert Gene Morley, 23, on a Umatilla County Warrant for Failure To Appear/Driving While Suspended felony. Subject was lodg ed at the Umatilla County jail. July 11: Morrow County deputy assisted Boardman Police depart ment with removing some unwanted subject at a local business; Morrow County deputy respond ed to take a report of a missing per son in the Boardman area; Morrow County deputy respond ed to the Irrigon area to deliver an emergency message; Morrow County deputy respond ed to the Boardman area to try to locate a speeding vehicle; Morrow County deputy respond ed to the Lexington area to deliver an emergency message. July 12: Morrow County Sheriffs office dispatched the Boardman am bulance to a motor vehicle accident on Hwy 730, mile post 169. One male subject was transported to Good Shepherd Hospital; Morrow County Sheriffs office dispatched the Arlington ambulance to a residence for a non-emergency transport to The Dalles; Morrow County deputy respond ed to a business in Irrigon to in vestigate a theft of services; Morrow County deputy respond ed to a report of mailbox vandalism in Irrigon; Morrow County deputy and Mor row County ambulance responded to a motor vehicle accident on highway 207. Three subjects were transported to Pioneer Memorial Hospital; Morrow County deputy cited Crescencio Chavez for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants. Chavez was cited and released; Morrow County deputy respond ed to an Irrigon residence to check the welfare of a resident. Everything checked out to be okay. July 13: Morrow County Sheriffs office dispatched the Arlington am bulance to a report of a woman with an unknown illness on 1-84 mile post 147. There was no transport; Morrow County Sheriffs office lispatched the Boardman ambulance to the Marina Park. One male was 'ransported to Good Shepherd Hospital. July 14: Morrow County Sheriff s jffice dispatched the Fossil am bulance for a transport of a male vith an unknown illness; Morrow County deputy respond- A to the Boardman Marina to deliver an emergency message. Message was delivered; Morrow County deputy assisted a Heppner citizen with a neighborhood matter; Morrow County deputy respond ed to the Irrigon Park Marina for a report of vandalism. A juvenile was cited and released for criminal Mischief; Morrow County deputy respond ed to the Wilson Trailer Court in Ir rigon, for a report of an animal pro blem. Problem was solved; Morrow County deputy respond ed to a residence on 9th St. Irrigon. for a report of a possible burglary in Progress. Call was unfounded; Morrow County deputy assisted a disabled motorists on Highway 730 in the Irrigon area; Morrow County deputy received a report of a witness to an attemp ted vandalism to some phone booths in Irrigon. Suspects fled the scene; Morrow County deputy assisted Boardman Police department with a Driving Under the Influence of In toxicants arrest. July 15: Morrow County deputy arrested Timothy Dale Whitaker. 30, Irrigon for Driving Under the In fluence of Intoxicants. Whitaker was cited and released; Morrow County deputy received information from an Irrigon resident of a speeding driver in the Irrigon area; Morrow County deputy respond ed to the Philippi residence on Kunzc Road in Boardman for a report of il legal littering. Investigation is continuing. Oops!! <NAPA> Last week the Gazette-Times ran a picture of the Willow Creek Little League All Stars The picture was taken by Lisa Willman Proper photo credit was not given. Chamber Chatter Harvest Time By Claudia Hugh— , Chamber Manager After spending a week in Boulder, Colorado, at the Chamber Institute for Organization Management, I realize there are mountains and there are mountains.’ The Rocky Mountains, known as the Flatirons in Boulder, are something to see. Three hundred fifty cham ber managers and staff attended this in stitute. Classes were held from 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. all week with ad vance study and testing as well as mandatory attendance required. The classes and instructors were ex cellent. In addition, the networking with people from all over the United States was beneficial. I found Kan sas and Nebraska chambers to share much common ground with the Heppner chamber. The Mid-West is also dealing with numerous environ mental issues; 21 in Forth Collins alone. The important goal for all chambers, large or small, is to focus on quality and to create an environ ment where people and businesses wish to be. I’ll be sharing more about the Boulder experience next week during the chamber business meeting. Chamber members have indicated an interest in a Forest Service field trip. This is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, August 6. Our noon pro gram will relate to the tour, which will take up most of the afternoon and part of the evening. More infor mation will be available next week at chamber. Please sign up if you wish to attend. Mark your calendars for Heppner clean-up, Saturday, August 3. Thought for the week: “ It isn’t our position but our disposition which makes us happy.’’ Wheat harvest got underway just after the 4th in a big way. Potato digg ing is just now starting and of course haying goes on and on all summer long. It’s a busy time in most of Eastern Oregon’s farming county. Even the garden is producing. I’m writing this piece with one hand and munching a cold cucumber with the other. And there’s nothing like it anywhere across the country. You have to admire those folks who work in some factory somewhere mak ing a little part of something bigger, making tens or hundreds or thousands of the same little part day after day. Come quitting time they can look at a pile of widgets and say “ I made that little wheel on every one of these.’’ The next morning when they come to work, the widgets are all gone and there’s more little wheels to make. It takes a special kind of person to go to the same office every day and make out forms or type letters all day and come quitting time they can say “ look at the pile of papers, I put all those words on them.’’ Then come back the next day and do it all over again. People who don’t see, can’t participate in, the whole cycle of things miss a great deal, it seems to me. You see, for a farmer, and many of the folks who work for and around him, there’s a plant, grow and harvest cycle that is particularly rewarding. To me, the greatest satisfaction must come from seeing with your own eyes the transformation of seed to product that goes with growing an annual crop. That annual transformation involves a variety of skills and different kinds of work. Even today, a farmer must be a welder and a soil chemist, a tractor driver and a computer bookkeeper, a diesel mechanic and a com modities trader. And during the cycle there are a multitude of tests of his skill at each of these tasks. Success shows up in the bottom line, failure means a dose of humble pie in the banker’s office. Too many failures at too many tasks and he’s looking for one of those factory jobs with a bankruptcy on his record. But few farmers I know do it for the money. Most earn a good living all right, but that is not the real reason farmers farm. It’s the sheer joy of seeing the seed you plant sprout, grow green and lush, mature into food or fibre and be delivered for distribution across the world. There’s a special calling in that that makes the effort worth while. Farming is not a job or even a business like other people have. It’s more like an obsession. I’ve known third generation saw millers who have a strong sense of iden tity with the mill that Granddad saw through the depression, that Dad rebuilt from the ground up and that son had raised a family while serving. Those folks talk and act like saw milling is hereditary, part of the family, more akin with every generation. But it isn’t the same as farming. I know a fourth generation grocer. Great Granddad sold produce when he was fresh off the boat. Granddad had a store in the East. Dad still has his store in Seattle and son now has two stores of his own. Selling groceries is in the blood so deep, grandson can see no other future. But it isn’t the same as farming. Farming is not necessarily a father-to-son thing. It is not even the future fathers see for their sons, and frequently not the work farmers sons take up. It is not lucrative enough to attract hundreds of new college graduates every year. Farming is more a calling. There’s some mystical quality beyond defini tion that keeps farmers going on year after year. Only part of it is the ela tion of harvest. Part of it must be that farming is on a higher plane than other kinds of work. It is essential to life. It is more like the rising sun than another styrofoam cooler. It is an ancient kind of work, older than carpentry, or automaking. And inspite of how it may seem from time to time, farming will go on farther into the future than we can imagine. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22 Harvest is the best time of the cycle. Great satisfaction overcomes the hard work, worry about the weather, uncertainty about the future. This is the time of year I most envy my farmer friends. And the time when I most applaud their gift. Harvest is here, what a great time of year.------------------------------_ Births____ Alfred Aidan Burt-a son Alfred Aidan, was bom to Karla and A1 Burt, Heppner, on June 28, 1991, at St. Anthony’s hospital in Pendleton. The baby weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz. Grandparents are Jo and A1 Burt, Heppner, Marlene and Tom Pointer, Lexington; and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davidson, The Dalles. Great-grandmother is Ruby Um- barger, T roy, Idaho. G reat grandfather is Howard Eubanks, Condon. Justice Court Report____ The Justice Court office at the courthouse annex building in Hepp ner reports handling the following business during the past week: C lifford Loren Lucas, 22, Pendleton-Driving While Suspend ed, $341 fine; Mark D. Schm eltzer, 33, Heppner-Tandem Axel Overload, 36,000 with a weight limit of 34,000, $28 bail forfeited; James Arlen Hoduffer, 46, Dundee-Exceeding the Maximum Speed Limit, 72 mph in a 55 mph zone, $65 bail forfeited; Randy Sm ith, Heppner- Fumishing Alcohol to Minors, $701 fine, 30 days in jail, $300 and 30 days in jail suspended with one year probation no further violation of law excluding minor traffic; Charles Peck, 20, Heppner-Minor in Possesion, $85 fine. Weather Report by City of Heppner T u es. Weds. T h u rs . Fri. S a t. S un. Mon. Ju ly 9 H igh 84 84 92 96 95 82 79 - 15, 1991 F re e .0 41 .0 51 .0 57 60 T .0 48 48 .0 57 T Low R ain St. Patrick’s Senior Center Bulletin Board A large crowd was present at the Senior Center mealsite Wednesday Ju ly 10, when Dr. Jeanne Berretta introduced Ken Niles of the Oregon Depart ment of Energy. He gave a slide presentation outlining the health hazards associated with Hanford. It was a very interesting informative program. One hundred seventeen people were present for dinner and three dinners were taken out. Members of the Seventh Day Adventist and Nazarene chur ches served. Helen Crawford won the free meal ticket. Door prizes were given to Frances Murty, Bernice Thomson and Dr. Jeanne Berretta. The menu for July 24 will be sweet and sour pork with rice, brussels sprouts, applesauce, biscuit and cookies. Members of the Methodist church will serve. The senior center activity committee will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday Ju ly 24 following lunch. This is an important meeting and all members should attend if possible. Plans will be made concerning the fair. The quitters meet on Mondays, 1-4 p.m. All the blocks have been com pleted for the new quilt and are being set together. This is a beautiful St. Patrick's quilt to be raffled next March. Tuesday and Thursday 10-10:30 a m. is exercise time and Tuesdays 1-4 p.m. is hobby time. A senior center office staff meeting will be Tuesday, July 23 at 10:30 a.m. YOU CAN’T BEAT OUR DEAL SHERRELL CHEVROLET Hermiston, Oregon Phone 567-6487 TODAYS CHEVROLET ’
